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Audio/No playback devices

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by alwein

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On our Windows ME machine we tried to get around a virus by using a System Restore point. While it helped afterwards we found we had every hardware device in the system in Device Manager two, three or four times. I removed everything and kept rebooting until there we no more yellow highlights. Seemed like we had carried the day until the user noticed they had no sound. I tried once again to remove the audio devices and reboot but that did not help. In Control Panel/Sounds and Multimedia/Audio it says there are no playback or recording devices. In Devices everything appears normal. Something is missing but I can't guess what it might be. Any suggestions?

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by parvus1202

If you have a built in audio, you have deleted the driver. The only way to get the driver is to indentify your motherboard model, go to the site and download the audio driver for that motherboard model.

by alwein

I don't want this to die for lack of activity but I have not had a chance to try it. I wonder though if the driver is the problem that it does not show up as an exclamation point in Device manager?

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